An Iowa corn and soybean farmer is hesitant to forward-contract partly because of major global events in the past couple of years.
April Hemmes of Hampton tells Brownfield she does have confidence in the futures market.
But I also know anything can happen (like) more offshoots of COVID virus, another African swine fever (case) in China. All those black swans we have, they’re flocking and it doesn’t make me very happy sometimes.”
Hemmes is proceeding with caution as she looks to make some sales for next year.
